Rebels fighting to depose Syrian president Bashar Assad have for the first time acquired a small supply of surface-to-air missiles, according to a news report that a Western official did not dispute. A Free Syrian Army spokesperson denied the report. NBC News reported Tuesday night that the rebel Free Syrian Army had obtained nearly two [...]Continuer la lecture

German intelligence estimates that « around 90 » terror attacks that « can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups » were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning of July, as reported by the German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). This was revealed by the German government [...]Continuer la lecture

The narrative that has been constructed by the Western mainstream media on Syria may seem to be self-evident from the scenes presented on television, but it is a narrative duplicitously promoted and coordinated so as to conceal and facilitate the regime-change project that is part of the war on Iran. What we are seeing is [...]Continuer la lecture

It’s important to stress: to investigate the background of a Syrian spokesperson is not to doubt the sincerity of his or her opposition to Assad. But a passionate hatred of the Assad regime is no guarantee of independence. Indeed, a number of key figures in the Syrian opposition movement are long-term exiles who were receiving [...]Continuer la lecture

A new report in one of Germany’s leading newspapers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the Houla massacre was in fact committed by anti-Assad Sunni militants, and most of the victims killed were members of the Alawi and Shia minorities, which have been largely supportive of Assad. The reports cites anonymous opponents of Assad who admitted their involvement [...]Continuer la lecture

The Houla Massacre is to be brought before a rare gathering of the UN Human Rights Council. But what kind of findings will be presented? Anti-war campaigner Marinella Corregia worries the HR commissioner talks only to its sources: the opposition. The meeting, set for Friday, has been called by 21 of the 47 council members. [...]Continuer la lecture

The Head of Syria’s inquiry committee said Thursday that preliminary investigations indicated that 800 heavily armed men carried out attacks on government forces and slaughtered families in Houla. Brigadier-General Qasem Jamal Sulaiman said during a press conference that the armed groups’ attacks targeted two army bases in the area. He added that the government troops [...]Continuer la lecture

Likely victory for MeK shills. Former U.S. officials, paid to advocate for a designated Terror group, are now on the verge of succeeding. A bipartisan band of former Washington officials and politicians has spent the last two years aggressively advocating on behalf of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK), an Iranian dissident group that has been formally designated [...]Continuer la lecture

Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar al-Assad have begun receiving significantly more and better weapons in recent weeks, an effort paid for by Persian Gulf nations and coordinated in part by the United States, according to opposition activists and U.S. and foreign officials. Obama administration officials emphasized that the United States is neither [...]Continuer la lecture

Iran had planned to bomb an Israeli ship while it crossed the Suez Canal, the prosecution in Egypt’s state security court said, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Saturday. According to the report, two Egyptians were recently arrested and investigated for allegedly planning an attack on an Israeli ship in the Suez Canal. Par Avi [...]Continuer la lecture